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Google javascript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored.

Adam Sherk

It can be done by redirecting the sponsored links to an intermediate page that is blocked via robots.txt, or by applying the nofollow attribute to the JavaScript links (see the Vanessa Fox writeup as well as the second half of this article in SEL for more detail). Related posts: Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social Events (e.g., Eventful, Meetup, Upcoming, etc.). In chapter 37, she almost seems to defend the insidious nofollow tag , which has outlived whatever useful life it once had and should be banished. . • Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo, Bmaccess; the distinction from social news sites is s bit blurry). Tweet This!

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Connecting Bloggers and Businesses Through Guest Blogging with PostJoint

Kikolani

They simply allow you to connect with businesses on your own terms and even suggest that if you want to accept payment for placing content, you should follow Google’s rules of using nofollow with any links added in sponsored content. You will find out how much your blog is worth.

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Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Elevating the Enterprise 2.0 Conversation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Current Affairs. decentralization. disclosure. emergentdemocracy. enterprise2.0. entrepreneurship. folksonomy. innovation. intelligence. Long Tail. management. mashupcamp. neurotechnology. opensource.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

In some cases like Yahoo, the links within syndicated content are nofollow (and they often point to Yahoo tracking URLs with 302 redirects) and thus do not pass SEO value. So it is a vehicle for link development too. But they are still a valuable tool for building traffic and awareness. Sponsorships, contests, special promotions.

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10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

PageRank Sculpting – A few SEOs taught a couple of years ago that you could increase your link popularity to your best pages by adding a nofollow attribute to links pointing to your terms of service and privacy policy pages. It doesn’t. Don’t count on it, especially if your website has only 10 pages.

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How Social Media Can Increase Your New Site’s Search Visibility

Socialmedia.biz

Even though social media links are nofollow, you’ll still get a bit of authority and you’ll be sharing your name with potential new customers across multiple social media platforms. Step 4: Brands do their best to stay on top of current events and after seeing your viral post and write about it, linking back to you. Indirect Impact.